Durham, Sept. 24—As the result of a practical joke played upon a friend, Wiliam Bouras, a Greek and proprietor of a local café, is facing a possible criminal charge or, at the least, a damage suit. Nick Chacas, another Greek, employed in a Durham café, claims that Bouras invited him to go out to call upon some lady friends near Durham early last Sunday morning. The pair, he says went to a point about 10 miles from Durham and near Hillsboro. Arriving there, Chacas says that his friend knocked on the door; a male appeared, seemed to recognize the caller, declared that he was a scoundrel who had been calling on his wife and opened fire with a gun.
Bouras fell, apparently dead. Chacas, being panic stricken, started to run. Through woods, briar patches and over field he fled. He broke his collar bone, broke a wrist, tore his clothes and was bruised and bleeding when he showed up at Henderson hours later, only to find that he had been the victim of a joke. He returned to Durham to find he had lost his job. Now he has placed the matter in the hands of a lawyer and is demanding satisfaction and monetary damages.
From page 5 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, September 26, 1925
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